Man Attempts Robbery From Car At Drive-thru

HAMPTON — A would-be robber never left his car when he tried to hold up the McDonald's on Semple Farm Road in Hampton Tuesday night.

Instead he pulled up to the drive-thru window and demanded money. Police said the holdup attempt went something like this:

"How much money do you have in the register?" the man asked the clerk.

"I don't know, sir," the clerk responded.

"Well, you have 30 seconds to put all the money in a bag," the man said.

"I don't have any bags. I'll have to go to the front counter to get one," the clerk said.

Instead of getting a bag, the clerk called police. The would-be stick-up man pulled out.

The assailant was driving an old brown Ford Grenada that officer Stacey Bishop described as "raggedy. It looked lived-in."

It took police only a minute to get to the restaurant, but the car was gone by the time the officers arrived, Bishop said.

While the would-be robber never produced or claimed to have a gun, he hid one hand and "made it seem like he had a gun," Bishop said. If caught, the man will be charged with attempted robbery, he added.